Hi All,
I've been having years of problems with my pool...and i've been going through the existing plumbing versus what the pentair manual says..and it looks completely backwards and just plain jacked up! It looks so backwards that i'm posting to see if i'm missing anything..
What all the diagrams I see online, the piping is supposed to go from the filter to the 3-way valve, which directs it either to the solar panel or directly to the pool heater. If going to the solar panel, it still goes to the pool heater INLET.
Mine however seems to Tee BEFORE the heater, so even if the solar panel is on, some water still goes to the heater. Additionally, the solar panels return AFTER the heater at another Tee, i.e. at the heater OUTLET. it almost seems like in either case, there's constant back pressure..either the solar panel water trying to go in the OUTLET of the pool heater..or the water BEFORE the heater trying to push up past the solar panel check valve..
it just seems completely backwards. This is also a property that I rent out as a vacation rental..and it seems as though with all the valves, that I can probably manually set them to operate in heater-only or solar-only..but nothing on an automated basis for tenants..
Should the best solution be to simply re-plumb to the standard "correct" way, or am I missing something?
The photo is my actual plumbing, and the diagram is what I pulled up on the internet.
I can make a diagram of my actual setup if it would be helpful.
Thanks for any help,
Mark
UPDATE: I added a diagram I just drew of the existing plumbing...
I've been having years of problems with my pool...and i've been going through the existing plumbing versus what the pentair manual says..and it looks completely backwards and just plain jacked up! It looks so backwards that i'm posting to see if i'm missing anything..
What all the diagrams I see online, the piping is supposed to go from the filter to the 3-way valve, which directs it either to the solar panel or directly to the pool heater. If going to the solar panel, it still goes to the pool heater INLET.
Mine however seems to Tee BEFORE the heater, so even if the solar panel is on, some water still goes to the heater. Additionally, the solar panels return AFTER the heater at another Tee, i.e. at the heater OUTLET. it almost seems like in either case, there's constant back pressure..either the solar panel water trying to go in the OUTLET of the pool heater..or the water BEFORE the heater trying to push up past the solar panel check valve..
it just seems completely backwards. This is also a property that I rent out as a vacation rental..and it seems as though with all the valves, that I can probably manually set them to operate in heater-only or solar-only..but nothing on an automated basis for tenants..
Should the best solution be to simply re-plumb to the standard "correct" way, or am I missing something?
The photo is my actual plumbing, and the diagram is what I pulled up on the internet.
I can make a diagram of my actual setup if it would be helpful.
Thanks for any help,
Mark
UPDATE: I added a diagram I just drew of the existing plumbing...
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